A MUM narrowly escaped jail after she and her daughter launched a horrific drunken attack on a pub landlady.

Amanda Denholm and her daughter Carly Storey went berserk when pub boss Julie Appleby asked the drunken pair to leave The Raby in Byker, Newcastle.

Denholm threw a punch at the landlady while Storey grabbed her and sank her teeth into one of her breasts.

Mrs Appleby, 46, was left with a black eye, marks on her chest and had to have a tetanus jab after the attack.

And despite enjoying her job, the landlady has now left the Shields Road pub, which is now under new management.

In a statement read out in court Mrs Appleby said: “I really enjoy my job and I didn’t expect to get assaulted in my place of work.” Denholm, 46, of Wigmore Avenue, Walker, Newcastle, was given a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assault by beating at the city’s magistrates court.

The court was told that one of the pair had become so drunk she fell on the floor as she arrived at the pub.

The duo were asked to leave, but then became angry and set about Mrs Appleby and her staff.

Rebecca Gibson, prosecuting, said: “When Mrs Appleby refused to serve them any more drinks, both females lunged at her and tried to attack her.

“Both were restrained by customers but they both lashed out.

“They were then asked to leave the bar.

“Mrs Appleby was struck above the right eye.”

A court heard the pair were then arrested and they claimed they could barely remember the incident.

Denholm told officers she had been drinking since six o’clock and had been drinking all through the night on April 20, after they had been out celebrating Storey’s birthday.

Brad Stephens, defending, said: “They were very drunk. And all witnesses give different accounts of what happened.

“This has never happened before and Amanda Denholm has stressed it won’t happen again.”

In 2002 Denholm was given an 11-year jail sentence after she admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Her sentence was later reduced to seven years on appeal after judges accepted her role in the gang was limited.

District Judge Tim Spruce, who gave Denholm a 12-month suspended sentence and 80 hours unpaid work, said: “You pleaded guilty at a very early stage.

“You expressed remorse from what happened here and you have shown, demonstrated and understood the consequences on the victim. But what we are talking about is an unprovoked and sustained attack in licensed premises.

“Mrs Appleby is clearly shaken and the attack will have a lasting impact on her.”

Mrs Appleby had turned the Raby’s fortunes around after the previous manager was stripped of her licence when customs officers raided the pub and discovered gallons of bogus alcohol and smuggled cigarettes stashed there.

But the pub is now under new management once again after Mrs Appleby decided to leave following her assault.